The Spaniard was fast from the start of morning prac🍌tice on his way to second behind Fabio Quartararo in FP1, then was left just 0.173s from Luca Marini during the afternoon time attacks.

But Marquez was a🌸lso clearly pu𝔉shing the limits, suffering a fall in each session.

The first was a slow Turn 2 off in the morning, followed by a much faster lo𝄹wside at Turn 1 in the a𒁃fternoon.

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“The grip level was good, especially coming from Malaysia that was very poor 🌄for us. And with a higher grip level our bike is working better. But even like this [better grip] today I had some problems and I didn't feel the way to push,” explained Marquez.

“But it's the last race, a Spanish GP and I decided to take risks today. I crashed two times and I will take risks tomorrow. Mꦆaybe I will crash again. And I will take risks on Sunday also because I want to finish in🦄 a good way.

“But in the end, I have what I have [with🔴 the bike] and I♛ need to wait until Tuesday [test] to do, I hope, another step.”

Valencia is now the last cꦯhance for Honda to avoid becoming the only manufacturer not to win a MotoGP race during the 2022 season.

“I said to you yesterday, [our performance here] will be between Australia [2nd] and Malaysia [7th] and at the moment𝕴 we are 4th," Marque⛦z continued,

“We are there. I know that tomorrow with a single fast lap it will be difficult ⛄to [qualify] in the front two rows. Maybe the target is to be on the third row.

“But we will see. As I sai🎐d, I will take a risk because I want to do something more on my side.

“During all the [p✅revious]🗹 races I was fast but always trying to control everything. But at this race I want to see if I have this fire inside me. And I have.

“Today I showed to myself that if I wan🔴t, I can push, but I have what I have [with the bike]. I can do what I can do and no more.”

Speaking with a croaky voice, Marquez explained: “I’m 🌌[feeling] destroyed🧔!

“I [woke] up and I was sick. So I'm taking medicines and tomorrow I ho😼pe to feel better and Sunday better again. But you never know.”

But there was more positiveꦺ newღs about the ever-improving condition of his right arm.

“I'm happy because the target of my comeback was to improve my right a♈rm and we improved a lot.

"Today I rode in a ♎normal way and it was long time since I rode in a normal way.

“So for that reason I pushed more and I crashed♛ more.🌌 But I was riding very good.”

Despite missing six mid-𝓡season races following his latest round of arm surgery, Marquez is twelfth in the world championship and th🧸e top Honda rider.

The next best RCV on Friday was the🌞 LCR෴ machine of younger brother Alex Marquez, in 17th.